Most
Americans, a large percentage of whose ancestors were German, were
neutral until propagandized by a barrage of German atrocity stories
through pamphlets produced by the U.S. government. The U.S. resisted
war, even after the devised Lusitania incident on May 7, 1915 when
785 out of 1,257 passengers perished, 128 of them Americans.[1]
Several months before that ill-fated voyage, Winston Churchill, a
Rothschild minion, described the Lusitania as “45,000 tons of
live bait.”[2]
Were the 3,000 in the Rockefeller-built twin towers in Manhattan on
September 11, 2001 also “live bait” leading to yet another
genocidal assault?

Because
of Britain’s illegal blockade of Europe, and “British
violations of international law and neutral rights on the high seas,”
Germans retaliated.[3]
On February 4, 1915, Germany declared the waters around Great Britain
and Ireland a “war zone” and warned that all enemy ships
in that area after February 18 would be sunk. The Lusitania then deceptively
flew the U.S. flag. In February 1915, the British Admiralty ordered
British merchant ships, like the Lusitania, to ram German submarines
on sight. Germany was aware of those orders by February 15. On April
22, 1915, Germany, through its U.S. Embassy warned Americans not to
travel on British ships in the “war zone.”[4]
That warning was not published by the elite-owned media until the
day of departure – May 1, 1915.[5]
On that day, there was a two and a half hour delay due to passengers
being transferred from the Cameronia.[6]
A number of prominent passengers were alerted anonymously not to sail
on the Lusitania.[7]
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (Skull & Bones) received a telegram the
morning of the sailing which said: “The Lusitania is doomed.
Do not sail on her.” The telegram was signed Morte (death).[8]
He ignored the warning; his body was never recovered.

That
night, the Lusitania, allegedly because of fog, was “not running
at full speed” or even resorting to an “evasive zigzag
course. The British had withdrawn the military escort from the ship
as it approached England. It was literally “a sitting duck and
was headed straight into the sights” of a German submarine.
They converged at about 2 PM. The U-20 commander, Captain Walther
Schwieger released one torpedo after observing the Lusitania for an
hour. There was an immediate suspicious “second explosion.”[9]
The powerful ship surprisingly sank in just eighteen minutes which
contributed to the great loss of life. German submarines had torpedoed
ships much smaller than the Lusitania, some never sank and others
sank only after several hours. Explosions in ships and buildings appear
to be the Elite’s modus operandi!

Germany,
unlike her European neighbors, had a more peaceful, less aggressive
history and had participated in “less than one quarter of the
wars” that Britain had engaged in. Yet, Germany was targeted
for “the biggest ethnic assault in history. Almost overnight,
Germans were transformed into pariahs through intense propaganda expertly
crafted by forces eager to involve the United States in a foreign
war.”[10]
The vilification of Germany occurred about a decade after Britain
constructed concentration camps and incarcerated and slaughtered thousands
of Boers, without respect for age or gender which apparently went
unnoticed by the selectively observant media. Read
more here and here.

Like today, propaganda was rampant! The Times of London declared
that “four-fifths” of the Lusitania’s passengers
were U.S. citizens instead of the actual proportion. That fabrication
was calculated to ignite American outrage. Additionally, the British
produced and circulated a medal purportedly created by the Germans
which they claimed had been presented to the submarine crew for their
actions. A French newspaper published a photo taken much earlier,
under different circumstances, of German crowds supposedly “rejoicing”
over the news about the sunken Lusitania. Americans vehemently objected
to Germany’s “submarine warfare” while ignoring
Germany’s justifiable opposition to the illegal starvation-generating
British blockade.[11]
America didn’t enter the war to “protect the freedom of
the seas” from British supremacy.

The
secret Sykes-Picot Agreement, negotiated in July 1915 and concluded
on May 16, 1916, would, at the end of “the bloodiest, most destructive
war in modern history,”[12]
divide the oil-rich Ottoman Empire between Britain and France, with
the assent of Russia who would be compensated with territory in northeast
Turkey which was later rescinded due to the Bolshevik Revolution of
1917.[13]
See division
map here. Lenin later discovered a copy of this real-reason-for-the-war
agreement among Russia’s state papers and made it public.

After
the Sykes-Picot Agreement had been negotiated, the British promised
Sharif Hussein of Mecca that they would support Arab independence
as a single unified state if the Arabs would agree to join the British,
under T. E. Lawrence, in their fight against the Ottoman Empire, Germany’s
ally in the war. This promise was contained in a letter dated October
24, 1915 from Sir Henry McMahon, the British High Commissioner in
Egypt, to the Sharif and later became known as the McMahon-Hussein
correspondence. Hussein assumed that the promise included Palestine.
“Thus, by a stroke of the imperial pen, the Promised Land became
twice-promised.”[14]
Even after the exposure of this double dealing-duplicity, France and
Britain issued a statement on November 7, 1918 proclaiming that they
were nobly, altruistically fighting (Britain was bankrupt at the war’s
inception) for the freedom of those peoples who had been so horribly
oppressed by the Turks for such a long time.

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Sharif
Hussein’s objective was the establishment of a single independent,
unified Arab state stretching from Aleppo (Syria) to Aden (Yemen).
Based on this vision, the Arabs gave the British troops “invaluable
military assistance” during which 100,000 Arabs were killed.[15]
The Sykes-Picot Agreement actually internationalized the bulk of Palestine
and divided the land into protectorates, vehicles for exploitation
by imperialists. British politicians reneged on every promise.[16]
The mandate system, “a thin disguise for colonial rule,”
would later be created under the League of Nations. “Mandate
territories, earlier the possessions of the Ottomans, were to be ‘guided’
by the victorious imperialist powers until they had proved themselves
capable of self-rule. Britain was awarded the mandate for Iraq.”[17]

While
thousands of ordinary French and German citizens-turned-soldiers were
slaughtering each other in Germany, Britain, allegedly concerned about
the Suez Canal's (oil route) security, removed 1,400,000 British soldiers
and scarce materials to the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf area. This
angered the French who lost almost 1,500,000 soldiers; 2,600,000 were
severely injured. Those British troops remained after the end of hostilities.
A million soldiers occupied the Middle East, even in the French area,
to protect those petroleum resources. France’s leader, Clemenceau,
agreed to British Prime Minister George’s request to allow the
British complete control of the Mosul wilayet (in Iraq) and Palestine
from Dan to Beersheba. France would control Greater Syria and receive
“a half share in the exploitation of Mosul oil and a guarantee
of British support in the postwar period in Europe, should France
ever have to respond to German action on the Rhine.”[18]

When
Woodrow Wilson was president of Princeton, he had an affair with Mary
Peck, a married woman. Bernard Baruch purchased Wilson’s love
letters to his lover for $65 thousand.[19] Samuel
Untermeyer, a prominent New York City lawyer, later the president
of Keren HaYesod (The Foundation Fund, established in London in 1920)
and a generous contributor to Wilson’s presidential campaign,
approached Wilson shortly after the inauguration with that packet
of love letters. Untermeyer had been retained by Wilson’s ex-lover
to bring a breach of promise action against the president. She had
remarried (now Mary Hulburt); her stepson, a bank employee, desperately
needed $40 thousand keep him out of jail. She was willing to drop
the legal action for $40 thousand. Wilson didn’t have the money.
Untermeyer paid off the blackmailer on the condition that Wilson would
appoint pro-war Zionist, Louis Dembitz Brandeis as a Supreme Court
Justice when the next vacancy occurred.[20]
Brandeis was sworn in on June 5, 1916. Wilson was a morally compromised
relatively “cheap” investment for the bankers! In a New
York Times article dated December 8, 1922, Samuel Untermeyer, apparently
an individual with diverse interests, was mentioned as the financial
supporter of “American” claims in the Mosul oil fields.[21]

With
Brandeis’ encouragement, Wilson, the “man of peace,”
poignantly pleaded with Congress on April 2, 1917 to declare war against
Germany.[22] Wilson got that declaration on
April 6, 1917. He took us into Oil War I “to save the world
for democracy.” The U.S. entered the war when Britain was close
to defeat. The real reasons include the division of the oil-rich Ottoman
Empire and the seizure of Palestine for the creation of the Zionist
state of Israel, a prospective military presence in the oil-rich gulf.[23]
J. Pierpont Morgan (1867–1943) was the American agent for all
Allied countries. He also financed France’s participation in
the war.[24] Britain owed millions to the U.S.
banks and businesses who sold Britain war-related components, some
of which were transported on the Lusitania. Aiding Britain, our debtor
nation, protected the bankster’s loans and business profits.[25]
The U.S. actually “had a minimal affect on the military outcome
of the European war.”[26]

Standard
Oil agents needed to “participate in the drawing up of the Treaty
of Versailles.” That would only occur if the United States participated
in Oil War I. Therefore, the U.S. suffered 320,518 casualties.[27]
Standard Oil had representation in the oil plunder process. The American
delegation included Bernard Baruch, Paul Warburg, ‘Colonel’
House, with attendees Walter Lippman, and brothers Allen and John
Foster Dulles among others.

Vladimir
Lenin, Russia’s Bolshevik “leader,” announced an
armistice and sent Trotsky to Brest-Litovsk in November 1917 to negotiate
a peace deal with Germany and Austria. No agreement was reached after
nine weeks of negotiation. Consequently, on March 3, 1918, German
troops moved towards Petrograd to ‘encourage’ Russia to
accept the Central Power’s (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria,
and the Ottoman Empire) terms defined by the Brest-Litovsk Treaty.[28]
Because of this treaty, the Treaty of Versailles could not be imposed
on Russia. The Bolsheviks controlled a huge quantity of untapped oil
which would not fall under the control of Standard, British Petroleum
or Royal Dutch Shell, the world’s first oil cartel.[29]
Thus, another war would immediately be planned!

The
Bolsheviks “renounced most of their rights in Iran and canceled
all Iranian debts to Czarist Russia.” With Russia out of the
way, Britain and their Anglo-Persian Oil Company took control of oil
exploration and development in Iran. Britain extracted huge quantities
of oil from Iranian soil. Winston Churchill called it “a prize
from fairyland beyond our wildest dreams.”[30]

Millions
of Americans participated in Oil War I including Smedley Butler who
went to France as commander of the 13th Marines. They arrived at Brest
on September 24, 1918. The Marines in Oil War I operated under U.S.
Army command.[31] Butler’s marines moved
on after two weeks and Butler was promoted to brigadier general on
October 7, 1918[32] and given charge, by A.E.F.
Commander General John J. Pershing, of the Army debarkation camp at
Pontanezen, France, a filthy, seventeen hundred acre pestilence-infested
mud flat, akin to a concentration camp, where seventy-five thousand
American soldiers were crammed together trying to share inadequate
sanitation facilities.

Sixteen
thousand of those soldiers suffered from influenza. An average of
25 individuals expired each day from influenza or other diseases.
After other lesser men had failed, in usual Butler fashion, he turned
the camp into a model of efficiency. His most significant action was
his treatment of the troops – he gave them double rations of
food, an adequate number of blankets and provided them with a dry
sleeping area. He cared more about the men than the regulations he
broke to make them comfortable. “He was always on the side of
the powerless against the brass.”[33]
Despite recruiting propaganda, the military have been and are underpaid,
used as medical guinea pigs, exposed to death, disease, toxic depleted
uranium, and when not left behind as POWs or MIAs are discharged and
regularly left to battle the inevitable emotional ordeal without assistance.

Butler
was torn as he witnessed “the wounded and maimed pass through
Pontanezen, some with their nervous systems irreparably shattered.”
“Gradually it began to dawn on me to wonder,” he related
later, “what on earth these American boys are doing getting
wounded and killed and buried in France.” Butler began to doubt
“the ethics of his chosen calling.”[34]
The total number of Oil War I casualties, both military and civilian,
was over 40 million — 20 million deaths and 21 million wounded.[35]
Resource acquisition and the arbitrary carving up of the world into
three primary areas (trilateralism) and then ultimately into a one
world government were the real reasons for the catastrophic profit-producing
genocide from 1914 to 1918.[36]

Deanna Spingola
has been a quilt designer and is the author of two books. She has traveled
extensively teaching and lecturing on her unique methods. She has always
been an avid reader of non-fiction works designed to educate rather than
entertain. She is active in family history research and lectures on that
topic. Currently she is the director of the local Family History Center.
She has a great interest in politics and the direction of current government
policies, particularly as they relate to the Constitution.

Germany, unlike her
European neighbors, had a more peaceful, less aggressive history and had
participated in “less than one quarter of the wars” that Britain
had engaged in. Yet, Germany was targeted for “the biggest ethnic
assault in history.